Report: Colleges will need $1.5B more in 2019
A report called "Ready or Not, Here They Come" projects that the demand for undergraduate enrollment slots at University of California, California State University and community college campuses will increase by 16 percent, or 387,000 students, by 2019. That’s compared to the number of students the colleges served in 2008. To accommodate all those additional students, the college systems will need $1.5 billion more in support in 2019 than what they received in 2008, the study found. "The state will also need to backfill for unfunded students who are currently being served by the systems," the report said.
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by Kelly Johnson, The Los Angeles Business Journal.